Rep. Anthony Weiner recently announced that he secured $2.4 million dollars to cleanup Floyd Bennett Field. The money will first be going to study the areas that have been closed to the public due to jet fuel pollution. Then the actual cleanup.
Floyd Bennett Field used to be a naval airfield and the city’s first commercial airport before JFK.
A National Parks Service investigation found that the fuel contamination has left amounts of benzene, naphthalene and other poisons and carcinogens in the soil.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will oversee the cleanup.
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